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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...

While Trondheim only has a population of 193,000 residents, the historic city ranks the third largest in Norway. The city, which is home to 30,000 students alone, is slowly catching up to Nordic neighbours like Stockholm and Helsinki, which are...

Getting young people excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a positive outcome any way you look at it. Getting them excited about how they can use STEM to solve environmental challenges is better yet. That’s what UL and...

Earlier this year we quoted Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent calling it a terrible thing when 75 million young people are ready to enter the workforce but can't find jobs and opportunities to create value. And it is terrible thing that affects way too many...

At Google's campus in Silicon Valley this week, teams of girls ages 10 to 18 are competing in an international mobile app competition. The Technovation World Pitch Summit promotes STEM education by encouraging girls to learn and apply technology to...

Herndon, VA-based Smart City Works is an infrastructure actuator and business accelerator focused on improving livability, operations and resilience in cities. Its fall cohort will for the first time include two slots for nonprofits focused on...

We frequently write about efforts to encourage more girls and minorities to pursue career paths in science, engineering, technology and math (STEM). Recent examples include UL's free program that promotes STEM learning in middle schools and the new...

Two billion people in the world remain financially excluded, according to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a financial inclusion think tank housed at the World Bank. They lack access to basic financial services such as savings accounts...

If it's hard as adults to make sense of what's going on in our world, imagine what kids must think of today's challenges – from famine and climate change to all manner of human atrocities. We can get a glimpse from Panasonic's Kid Witness News (KWN...

From the rapid growth of social impact investing to the emergence of artificial intelligence apps created by tech-oriented nonprofits, we're seeing some fascinating developments in the human services sector. Scroll down for a look at five that...

Do you find it difficult to believe that in 2017, there are 34 million Americans who still lack broadband Internet access? Or that a school teacher in Africa would have to spend a full month's pay just to download a single iTunes movie? Sadly, many...

We told you late last year about the new Poverty and Technology Lab at Stanford University, where they also have a Center on Poverty and Inequality. As part of these initiatives, Stanford offers a course where students learn about the basics of...

Mobility has several connotations. But it’s exciting to see an innovative company best known for manufacturing automobiles taking a broad view of what the term can mean. You’d expect Toyota to focus on physical mobility – how people get from point A...

In coming months, Bengaluru will witness a massive public bicycle sharing (PBS) project proposed by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT). The project, with around 4,000 cycle and 350 docking points, is touted to be India’s largest cycle-...

With all the gloom and doom we see in the news, we owe ourselves an occasional reminder that there are compassionate people and organizations doing great work to improve lives every day all around the world. We’ve highlighted a few examples below...

It's hard to make sense of a scenario where people who are poor pay more for essential goods and services than wealthier folks. Yet the University of Bristol suggested in a 2016 report that the so-called "poverty premium" paid by low-income families...

"We urgently need to transform the labor market so everyone can compete with equal dignity for today’s jobs." So says Zoë Baird, CEO and president of New York-based Markle Foundation, which just announced a partnership with Microsoft to expand its...

What's so compelling about what Louisville has done to raise awareness about redlining – the discriminatory lending practices that emerged in the 1930s – is the way it has connected the dots to show its lasting impact on the city and its citizens to...

I learned a long time ago that when Dubai takes action, especially where smart technologies are concerned, it's going to be interesting. Consider the robotic police officer it introduced earlier this year – or its data-driven effort to become the...

Mississippi’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.9% in May, the state's lowest level since the U.S. Department of Labor began publishing state unemployment rates in January 1976. Some will tell you Mississippi's pioneering efforts in...